I am trying to write a shell scrip that can give me the line length of a record that was in EBDIC and then converted to ASCII. Everything I try reports 1 yet the length is 2000+. I have tried

echo "Line length : ${#FILE}"
echo "FILE" |awk -F, '{print NF}'
awk '{lenth(file)}'

All I can tell is that there is a charcter or something that says end of line even i it is not end of line.

Can anyone give me another way to count every character in a line until the line break?

No there is a ^k\204 at the start

I am jut typing the code in on the command line so it is read in at FILE listed above

od -c gives me:

\v 204 \0

for the fist set of characters.